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All police forces have been alerted about a dangerous new type of ecstasy being smuggled into Britain.

The powerful pills, which are hallucinogenic like LSD, have turned up at raves and in nightclubs across the country over the last six months.

An assessment of the dangers posed by the ecstasy-type substance 2C-i, has been issued to police forces by the National Criminal Intelligence Service.

It follows seizures of a total of 125 of the small white pills, which are marked with an "i", on nine occasions between May and August.

The largest seizure of 65 tablets was at this summer's Glastonbury festival and others were found in Brighton, Wales, Bedfordshire and Edinburgh.

The substance, which is classified as a Class A drug in the UK, was only found for the first time here this year and is believed to have arrived from European countries, possibly Denmark.

With the price of ecstasy having plunged to as little as ?1 a pill, 2C-i is attractive to dealers because it can fetch up to ?10 per tablet.

An NCIS source said: "People who become involved in synthetic drugs risk their health simply because there is no regulation of how the drugs are manufactured. Users may not be aware of the side-effects of commonly-used ecstasy variants with potentially tragic consequences.

"Our assessment is intended to increase awareness amongst police officers and other law enforcement agencies that this drug is starting to appear on the UK club scene. There is a diverse range of active drugs that is made into tablets and sold as 'ecstasy'.

"Ecstasy is therefore best understood as a type of drug rather than a specific chemical compound - the most common ecstasy-type substance is MDMA but ecstasy tablets may contain other substances found either on their own or in combination with other active drugs."